1540
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
The Creation of Eve is a 1540 ink by Heinrich Aldegrever, a Northern Renaissance work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This black-and-white print shows a man lying on the ground under a tree, reaching toward a woman made from dirt and branches. She stands beside him, holding a fruit. The scene looks like a garden with bushes and rocks around them. The artist used lines to show every leaf and fold of cloth, making it look like a sketch come to life. This kind of detailed line work is called *etching*. Next, check out etching to see how artists carve images into metal plates.
Heinrich Aldegrever or Aldegraf was a German painter and engraver. He was one of the "Little Masters", the group of German artists making small old master prints in the generation after Albrecht Dürer.
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